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Public_Domain @ Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:31 am
mtbr @ Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:35 am
So what do you mean you can't get Healthcare in Alberta?
From your profile it says you are unemployed? 
in Alberta
You are full of shit.If you are Canadian there is only a 3 month waiting period.
Public_Domain @ Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:45 am
Public_Domain @ Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:47 am
mtbr @ Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:47 am
Bill_Hicks Bill_Hicks:
mtbr mtbr:
So what do you mean you can't get Healthcare in Alberta?
From your profile it says you are unemployed? in Alberta
I'm 15, I'm lazy, I'd walk to Tim Hortons and hand in my Resume, but it's cold out, From your profile it says you are unemployed?
in Alberta 
I mean I can't get healthcare. We can't get our insurance. I didn't think that's how it rolled ANYWHERE in Canada.
After watching SiCKO and crying my eyes out, my and my mom started talking about how he came up to Canada and everyone had it free, and it was never a problem for them. But he didn't go to Alberta...
So we looked at it, and it appears that Alberta is refusing us healthcare by saying we don't have enough information, (we have given them PLENTY) and is trying to make it so we have to pay, waiting for someone in my family to develop something serious.
This province has made me more Left-Wing then anything else in my life...
Not enough information? where are you from? what are you hiding? I think you are not Canadian and that slipped by in another province but not here.
Tricks @ Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:48 am
how have you not been banned yet?
Brenda @ Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:49 am
Whereto?
mtbr @ Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:49 am
Bill_Hicks Bill_Hicks:
mtbr mtbr:
You are full of shit.If you are Canadian there is only a 3 month waiting period.
We wish.Why would I lie about this? There's no point to bullshitting you.
We are disgusted by it and we are leaving.
This province is so freaking Anti-Social healthcare, it disgusts me.
Edited by Mod
No need for this type of post
Public_Domain @ Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:50 am
Tricks @ Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:51 am
Bill_Hicks Bill_Hicks:
waiting for someone in my family to develop something serious.
Welcome to Canada. My dad needs back surgery, but they won't do it until he isn't able to move. I laugh at how you blame "anti-social healthcare" for it, when it's actually social-health care that is causing you not to get treatment.
dino_bobba_renno @ Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:51 am
Bill_Hicks Bill_Hicks:
and the province of Alberta charges us for healthcare in our pay checks. But we don't have healthcare.
Bill_Hicks Bill_Hicks:
My mother got a lovely gift last year on my birthday, when I came down with seriously heavy Strep Throat (I couldn't breathe), I was brought to Emergency. They gave me 30 pills of moss. (penicillin). The charge? $260. Two hundred and Sixty Bucks. It's an awful feeling, being used by the government of a province.
So, I can't wait to leave. I am Canadian, and I damn well deserve to be treated like one.
So, I can't wait to leave. I am Canadian, and I damn well deserve to be treated like one.
Are you sure you're not getting Alberta Health Care and Alberta Blue Cross mixed up? There are some companies out there that will help pay for a persons AHC but normally that is up to the individual. Most companies normally elect to pay for half of a supplemental health plan like Alberta Blue Cross or Liberty health which is where you would get your perscription drug coverage from. There aren't many provinces (that I know of at least) which pay for prescription drugs so really you wont be much better off in any other province.
mtbr @ Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:51 am
Okay you fooled me once but you won't fool me twice.
SprCForr @ Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:51 am
I'm confused.
AHCIP clearly states:
$1:
Who is Eligible? (Who qualifies?)
Coverage under the AHCIP is available to all eligible residents and their dependants. No eligible Alberta resident will be denied coverage.
An eligible resident of Alberta is a person who is:
-Legally entitled to be or to remain in Canada and makes his/her permanent home in Alberta;
-Committed to being physically present in Alberta for at least 183 days in a 12 month period (NOTE: Periods of temporary absence will be counted as being physically present in Alberta. If you are planning to be away for more than six months, contact our office.);
-Not claiming residency or obtaining benefits under a claim of residency in another province, territory or country;
-Any other person deemed by the regulations to be a resident not including a tourist, transient or visitor to Alberta.
Examples of residents who are not eligible residents include members of the Canadian Armed Forces, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and federal penitentiary inmates as they receive coverage from the Federal Government. It is important to note that dependants of these non-eligible residents, who reside in Alberta, must be registered.
When you move to Alberta from another province, there is a waiting period before you become eligible for coverage under the AHCIP. Read more information about moving.
Coverage under the AHCIP is available to all eligible residents and their dependants. No eligible Alberta resident will be denied coverage.
An eligible resident of Alberta is a person who is:
-Legally entitled to be or to remain in Canada and makes his/her permanent home in Alberta;
-Committed to being physically present in Alberta for at least 183 days in a 12 month period (NOTE: Periods of temporary absence will be counted as being physically present in Alberta. If you are planning to be away for more than six months, contact our office.);
-Not claiming residency or obtaining benefits under a claim of residency in another province, territory or country;
-Any other person deemed by the regulations to be a resident not including a tourist, transient or visitor to Alberta.
Examples of residents who are not eligible residents include members of the Canadian Armed Forces, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and federal penitentiary inmates as they receive coverage from the Federal Government. It is important to note that dependants of these non-eligible residents, who reside in Alberta, must be registered.
When you move to Alberta from another province, there is a waiting period before you become eligible for coverage under the AHCIP. Read more information about moving.
The bolded part seems pretty clear to me. Is your family not meeting this criteria? If your not covered then who is your Mom's employer paying the money to?
Public_Domain @ Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:54 am
Public_Domain @ Sun Feb 03, 2008 11:55 am